Lex Barker
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Lex Barker was an American actor best known for succeeding Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan in a series of mid-20th-century adventure films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lex Barker canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5683135 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lex Barker Context triple: [La Dolce Vita, starred, Lex Barker]
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A.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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B.
Robert Parrish
Robert Parrish was an American film editor and director, as well as a former child actor, known for his work on several classic Hollywood films.
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C.
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Whitman was an American actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in film and television during the 1950s and 1960s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Mark."
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D.
Jack Heller
Jack Heller is an American film director and producer best known for helming the psychological thriller "Enter Nowhere" and working in the horror and genre film space.
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E.
Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea was an American character actor best known for his distinctive portrayals of sneering villains and tough guys in film noir and classic Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lex Barker Target entity description: Lex Barker was an American actor best known for succeeding Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan in a series of mid-20th-century adventure films.
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A.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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B.
Robert Parrish
Robert Parrish was an American film editor and director, as well as a former child actor, known for his work on several classic Hollywood films.
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C.
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Whitman was an American actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in film and television during the 1950s and 1960s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Mark."
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D.
Jack Heller
Jack Heller is an American film director and producer best known for helming the psychological thriller "Enter Nowhere" and working in the horror and genre film space.
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E.
Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea was an American character actor best known for his distinctive portrayals of sneering villains and tough guys in film noir and classic Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Oakwood Cemetery, Rye, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-05-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1973-05-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Phillips Exeter Academy
NERFINISHED
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Princeton University ⓘ |
| familyName | Barker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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adventure film ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | infantry officer ⓘ |
| name | Lex Barker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | Bambi Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Apache Gold
NERFINISHED
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Battles of Chief Pontiac NERFINISHED ⓘ La Dolce Vita NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Shatterhand (1964 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tarzan and the She-Devil NERFINISHED ⓘ Tarzan and the Slave Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ Tarzan's Magic Fountain NERFINISHED ⓘ Tarzan's Peril NERFINISHED ⓘ Tarzan's Savage Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pirates of the Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ The Return of Dr. Mabuse NERFINISHED ⓘ The Yellow Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ Treasure of the Silver Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rye, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| portrayed |
Old Shatterhand
NERFINISHED
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Tarzan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Arlene Dahl
NERFINISHED
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Carmen Cervera NERFINISHED ⓘ Constanze Thurlow NERFINISHED ⓘ Irene Labhart NERFINISHED ⓘ Lana Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1940s–1973 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Lex Barker Description of subject: Lex Barker was an American actor best known for succeeding Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan in a series of mid-20th-century adventure films.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.